Home Current News News Archive Shop/Advertise Ridecamp Classified Events Learn/AERC

All Endurance.Net Advertisers Belesemo Arabians. Cypress Trails Equestrian Center,Sales, Training, Boarding Distance Depot Tack and Equipment DWA Arabians Endurance Ride Photographers Guild Equipedic Saddle Pads for Horses EuroXciser Owyhee Endurance Rides Parry Harness and Tack/Running Bear PNER Renegade Hoof Boots Slypner Gear Trail Supplies SWITnDR Synergist Saddles Tevis Cup Magic TK Designs Custom Jewelry Centropix Kloud PEMF

---

Home

---

2010 Resolution Ride Stories by Merri Melde:
Snow Bird || Endurance Glitterati || A Soup Kinda Day || Resolution Ride Day 1 - What the Hail!
Resolution Ride Day 2 - A Cool Ride || Resolution Ride Day 3 - A Golden Day

---

Results:
Day 1 || Day 2 || Day 3

---

---

A Soup Kinda Day

Wednesday December 29 2010

Red skies at morning...

The predicted rain began around noon. Hesitantly at first, then casually, then boldly. A desert winter rain: steady, persistent, protracted (some might say: interminable). A gray, heavy, wet, soupy day. A good one to sit around the fire curled up around a hot cup of coffee and a hot bowl of soup.

Into the evening, little puddles became little lakes; little trickles became little streams down the washes and roads. Soggy horses, and a few stunned people who expected the sunny warm skies ("It's Phoenix for crying out loud!") and didn't bring rain gear or winter tights. Some people from New York and the Northwest and Utah thought they'd escape the snow and rain for the warm and dry Southwest.

But plenty of smiles and large doses of humor lit the faces of the 40-some intrepid endurance riders vetting their horses in, that didn't cancel (down from 90-some pre-entries), and who planned to mount their horses at 7:30 tomorrow morning for Day 1 of the Resolution Endurance Ride.

Ride manager Rusty roamed base camp with his hands wrapped around a cup of hot chocolate and a laugh on his lips. Trails are marked, everything is ready, and there's nothing to be done about the weather but saddle up and ride!

- Merri Melde